Bee Community

GI Apps LLC

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About this app

Bee Community is the beekeeper's app you can use in the yard, gloves on: log every hive in seconds, know what each colony needs next, and hear from nearby beekeepers when a swarm, bear or spray truck shows up.

WORKS IN THE BEE YARD
• Glove-friendly quick log: heft, queen, brood, temperament, mite wash, concerns, notes, photos.
• Fully offline; saves on your phone, syncs later.
• 2 hives free, 30 with Premium, 1,000 with Commercial, each with its yard, pin and history.
• Import another app's CSV export: preview first, nothing overwritten.
• Alerts and reminders from your own records and your region's season, never overnight.

PLAN THE SEASON
• A status light on every hive, each colour explained with its source and an action.
• Week card: the best day per yard from its forecast and what each hive needs.
• Premium places each task on a day of the week and sends the plan on Sunday.
• Winter ledger: fall readiness from your own log, and a free spring loss review.
• Stores projection from scale readings: a date to heft again before the floor.
• Mite projection: when your washes would meet the HBHC threshold, so you wash first.
• Treatment outcomes year by year from your own pre- and post-treatment washes.
• Flow tracker: bloom reports, calendar, heft and forecast as one level per yard.
• Yard treatment run: label doses across several hives, one start date; plus a wash sheet.
• Symptom checker: tick what you see, get look-alikes and the field tests that split them.
• Split wizard on UF/IFAS steps: equipment, new hive and queen check, at any hive count.
• Apiary books: expenses, nuc and queen sales with lineage, a tax-shaped export.
• Mite benchmark near you: a free state index and a Premium band on your chart.
• Days since each yard was visited; Commercial walks a yard and reconciles the count.
• Commercial: HBHC yard sampling plan, rotating draw, yard verdict and work order.

VARROA AND WEATHER
• Wash calculator with Honey Bee Health Coalition thresholds; trend chart, efficacy, rotation.
• Treatment picker: what fits now, what the forecast blocks, EPA-label dose math, PPE gate.
• National Weather Service forecasts per yard, graded for inspections; treatment windows.

LEARN AND TROUBLESHOOT
• Troubleshooter, 18-condition field guide, equipment guide, treatment reference, state rules.

YOUR BEEKEEPING COMMUNITY
• Area alerts with a rough spot, never a pin: bear, spraying, robbing, theft, disease, smoke, flooding.
• Feed, swarm alerts, what's blooming, mentors and clubs, within a radius you choose from your hives.
• A posting pause after reports never touches your logbook or sign-in.

PRIVACY FIRST
• Hive locations never leave the database; members see circles, not pins.
• Logbook photos are private. No ads, no data sales, delete your account any time.
• We ask for a rating only after a success in your log, at most three times.

PLANS AND TRIALS
• Pick a plan at setup; Start free is always there, nothing pre-selected.
• Hit the free limit in swarm season? A 30-day Premium trial, once, no card.
• Yearly is the winter plan: one price covers next spring's splits.

PREMIUM AND COMMERCIAL (OPTIONAL)
Everything above is free for two active hives and 100 MB of photos; nothing you have is ever locked. Premium ($3.99 a month or $24.99 a year): 30 hives, 2 GB, honey and sales tracking, club treasury tools, the placed week plan and Sunday push, winter ledger, stores projection, flow tracker, yard runs and wash sheets, apiary books, the benchmark band. Commercial ($14.99 a month or $119.99 a year): 1,000 hives, 10 GB, everything in Premium plus the HBHC yard sampling plan and verdict, the work order and yard check-ins. More than 1,000? Email [e-mail].

Weather is US-only for now. Beekeepers 18 and over. Member notes are opinions, not advice; when in doubt, call your state apiary inspector.

What’s new

• Optional getting-started tips: first hive and first log.
• We may remind you when a check is overdue and you have been away a few days.
• Free plan: an optional Sunday note on the week ahead.
• Switches in Settings, plus a button that pauses them for 30 days.
• Generally in your daytime, by the state or province on your profile or hives — none without one.
• The plan picker shows yearly renewal, and any trial Play offers.
• Updated Terms and Privacy Policy — accept them once when asked.